AI Job Loss Tracker
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AI Job Loss Tracker
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#2The “explicit” tag on some of these should really be “self reported”. It seems like most companies these days mismanage themselves into layoffs and spin it as AI gains to appease shareholders instead.
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#3This is a brochure site from "The Alliance for Secure AI", which I am unfamiliar with, but whose site gives "AGI weirdo". Am I misreading?
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#4Ah, this decade's Fucked Company?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fucked_Company
Actually, who owns that domain? It might be time for a revival.
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#5This is a website created by a professional lobbyist who still has an active role taking lobbying contracts through a firm they founded called Steinhauser Strategies.
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#6This is a brochure site from "The Alliance for Secure AI", which I am unfamiliar with, but whose site gives "AGI weirdo". Am I misreading? https://secureainow.org/
I don't think so..nothing about these folks backgrounds screams "understands LLMs" https://secureainow.org/staff/. Which to be clear doesn't mean they can't effectively pull together publicly available layoff data in a website.
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#7It’s really hard to know if these reports are real or marketing. Usually the company is very nonspecific about the kind of positions replaced. I tried reading a few of these articles and it was just buisness speak drivel about strategic repositioning. I have no idea what those displaced employees were doing and if their function was even replaced.
There is of course some value in self reported claims but usually a careful researcher would look for other evidence that those claims are sensible.
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#8The “explicit” tag on some of these should really be “self reported”. It seems like most companies these days mismanage themselves into layoffs and spin it as AI gains to appease shareholders instead.
The table shows this better. All have just a single reported layoff "event" except Amazon which has three. Even a decade ago Amazon had many reports on Glassdoor and elsewhere of horrible middle management and employee churn.
All these layoffs seem to track better with longer-term decline than AI progress. One would otherwise expect the layoffs to reflect the multiple and much hyped "step change" improvements over the past few years. Instead the chart shows a sudden plateau starting a month ago. Probably when this last made the rounds somewhere else (maybe reddit? too lazy to search).
There's also a huge hole in media reporting regarding smaller businesses. That's where you'd expect AI to have the biggest impact. Instead we hear crickets.
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#9Why are some companies listed multiple times?
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#10The “explicit” tag on some of these should really be “self reported”. It seems like most companies these days mismanage themselves into layoffs and spin it as AI gains to appease shareholders instead.
Mismanage or can't pay healthcare premiums anymore (US)?